Registrations are open to attend the Computational Molecular Evolution course next year (May 9th - 20th) in wonderful Crete! ☀️ Do not miss the deadline, follow the link below for more info and registration details! 🔽 meetings.embo.org/event/27-com...

Latest from the lab: @ruolinwu.bsky.social integrates fossil and molecular evidence to estimate the timing of origin of flowering plants. Thanks to @sabifo4.bsky.social @jameswclark.bsky.social Yue Tong, Shan Wan, Davide Pisani, Harald Schneider and Daniele Silvestro for helping to make this happen

Ruolin WU@ruolinwu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The broader implication extends beyond flowering plants. Many famous "rocks vs. clocks" debates may not require choosing sides. The challenge is finding better ways to let fossils and molecules speak to each other. Link to our latest: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Abstract submission (and early-bird!) deadline for the BioSyst.EU approaches! You have until Sunday, May 31st to send it in! Join us and our fellow European systematics associations in Uppsala, August 17-19, 2026 for the 4th BioSyst.EU meeting! Details: www.trippus.net/BioSyst2026 #BioSystEU2026

BioSyst.EU 2026

A three-day conference celebrating European systematics and biodiversity research at its origin

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We are back with a new edition of the Physalia Phylogenomics course! Join us Nov 30 – Dec 4 for a hands-on computational deep dive into phylogeny and timetree inference using genomic datasets 🧬💻 Course details and registration info below ⬇️

Physalia-courses@ONLINE@physaliacourses.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The #Phylogenomics course is back — save the dates: 30 November – 4 December with a stellar team of instructors: @kaplipa.bsky.social @sabifo4.bsky.social Tomas Flouri and @zihengyang.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Mark your calendars! The BioSyst.EU conference is taking place in Uppsala, Sweden from 17th to 19th August! Register now on our website (or using the QR code): www.trippus.net/BioSyst2026 #BioSystEU2026

So you are using IQ-TREE to estimate a tree for "deep time" phylogenetics using amino acid alignments. There is a lot of confusion about how to test model fit. Here are some suggestions.

I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!

Barbara Kleine-Marshall@barbaraikm.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are looking for 6 motivated Postdocs interested in various aspects of Earth system sciences. More information here: fau-earth-system-science.github.io #geochemistry

So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).

MENI is back! Join us in Dublin this August 2026 for our 3rd Meeting for Microbial Evolution in Ireland. We are delighted to have @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social @jpjhall.bsky.social and @tweethinking.bsky.social join us as keynote speakers this year. miniurl.com/MENI

We enjoyed sharing our passion for science at UCL Illuminated, showcasing how morphology & DNA are used to study evolution! Thanks to everyone who stopped by; @nateomics.bsky.social & I enjoyed discussing topics from dinosaurs, landmarking & Procrustes to Bayesian methods & genomes! 🦴🦖🧬💻 #UCL200

Applications to join the Computational Approaches to Early Evolution workshop are still accepted! Do not miss your chance to attend this event full of discussions on the computational methods for studying early life! 🦠💻🧬 forms.oist.jp/form/computa...

Sandra Álvarez@sabifo4.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Join us for interesting discussions at the Computational Approaches to Early Evolution workshop next year in April at OIST in Onna, Okinawa! 🦠💻🧬 Registrations open until January 2nd '26, do not miss it! More info & registration details in the link below! 🔽 www.oist.jp/conference/c...

Join us for interesting discussions at the Computational Approaches to Early Evolution workshop next year in April at OIST in Onna, Okinawa! 🦠💻🧬 Registrations open until January 2nd '26, do not miss it! More info & registration details in the link below! 🔽 www.oist.jp/conference/c...

Computational Approaches to Early Evolution

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Pre-Christmas moleclular-clock shenanigans with @sabifo4.bsky.social @mariodosreis.bsky.social @zihengyang.bsky.social

New paper! Here we look at shape evolution of the mandible in Pelagiaria, a group of open-ocean fishes that includes tuna and mackerel. We find that shape disparity accumulated rapidly at the origin of the clade at around the K/Pg boundary... academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Adaptive radiation of pelagiarian fishes at the K/Pg boundary led to rapid diversification of mandible morphology

Abstract. Mandibles represent a key evolutionary innovation that has enabled jawed vertebrates to adapt and diversify in response to a range of food source

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So grateful to be back for another year! 💫 Big thanks to all the participants who joined us on this phylogenomics journey. We hope you find these resources helpful for your analyses, best of luck! 💻🧬

Physalia-courses@ONLINE@physaliacourses.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Huge shoutout to the amazing instructor squad @kaplipa.bsky.social , @sabifo4.bsky.social , Tomas Flouri & @zihengyang.bsky.social for smashing another epic #Phylogenomics course! 🚀 Massive thanks to everyone who joined us this week — go crush your data and rock those projects! 💥🔥

Very happy to kick off the 5th edition of the #Phylogenomics course with @kaplipa.bsky.social , Tomas Flouri, @sabifo4.bsky.social , @zihengyang.bsky.social , and a wonderfully diverse cohort of attendees from all around the globe!

Wrapping up our annual joint lab meeting with a visit to the Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL was such a highlight! Always inspiring to reconnect with longtime colleagues, new team members, and collaborators💫

Happy to share Jialin's first publication. She did a great job exploring the transition to land in animals. Co-supervised by the great Jordi Paps and me and in collaboration with Davide Pisani and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social

Nature@nature.com · 9mo ago

Nature research paper: Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals go.nature.com/4i0i61w

Back from this great workshop at Beijing Normal University! Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to bring this event to life, it has been a great success!💫 Special thanks to Cai-jin Chen for climbing the Great Wall with me, truly unforgettable! 谢谢🌹

Ziheng Yang Lab@zihengyang.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We have had a great time at the Workshop on Computational Genomics at Beijing Normal University! Thank you to all organisers, course assistants, and the fantastic and hard-working participants for making this event possible! 下次见, 谢谢 🌹(1/2)

Students, if you join us for the lecture, we will be hosting a Student Committee-sponsored reception and you'll be entitled to a FREE drink 🍻 The receptions will be held jointly, so you'll have the opportunity to meet other students and members of the Association. Join us! tinyurl.com/28u2u2z8

Systematics Association@systassn.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Don't forget to register for our in-person Founders' Lecture, next Friday OCT 24 6PM at Burlington House, London. Prof @emmateeling.bsky.social, UCD, will be talking to us on all things bat 🦇 This is a free event but it will help us gauge interest if you register. tinyurl.com/28u2u2z8

Very happy to announce our new paper on the evolution of metabolism is out now! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... With @tweethinking.bsky.social @sabifo4.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social Davide Pisani, Tim Lenton and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social (1/2)

The emergence of metabolisms through Earth history and implications for biospheric evolution | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

We investigate the evolution of microbial metabolisms from the last universal common ancestor to the extant biota through comparative phylogenomics, reconciling the evolution of the genes that underpi...

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More than grateful to the CoME25 organisers for inviting me one more year, it is always so much fun!! Ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ και τα λέμε σύντομα! 💙

Ziheng Yang Lab@zihengyang.bsky.social · last yr.

What a busy (but sunny) May in Crete!🔆 Ziheng & @sabifo4.bsky.social enjoyed teaching and meeting the participants at the Computational Molecular Evolution course! Ziheng then joined the satellite workshop on Biodiversity Genomics 🌍🧬 Thanks to everyone who made these fantastic meetings possible!!

Congratulations Dr Jiayi Ji!! 🥳Thanks to examiners @hernanaburbano.bsky.social and Simon Martin, now time to enjoy the long weekend! 🎉

Had so much fun at the SystAssn-SRUK/CERU Bayesian Phylogenetics Workshop! 💫 Hope that everyone who attended this event enjoyed the two-day journey on theory, methods, and applications of Bayesian Phylogenetics and... Hopefully see you all again soon in future events! 💻🧬

Systematics Association@systassn.bsky.social · last yr.

And that's a wrap on the SystAssn-SRUK/CERU Bayesian Phylogenetics Workshop! Thank you to all the attendees, instructors (@anaserrasilva.bsky.social, @sabifo4.bsky.social, Tomas Flouri and Yuttapong Thawornwattana) and to our wonderful TA @lauramulvey.bsky.social!

Really pleased to be part of this project which shows that aerobic bacteria arose in the Archaean, long before the GOE - after which aerobes proliferated through HGT. Fun @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social collab including @tweethinking.bsky.social @sabifo4.bsky.social @emoody.bsky.social Davide Pisani

ssolo.bsky.social@ssolo.bsky.social · last yr.

Dating Bacteria is hard due to the lack of maxima. Assuming aerobes likely postdated the GOE gave us better resolved ages, but also surprised us, but not Dr Dayhoff, showing O2 use predated its atmospheric rise by 900 Mys and helped oxygenic photosynthesis to evolve. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Physalia Phylogenomics course is back this December! Join us for a computational journey on phylogeny and timetree inference with genomic datasets 🧬 💻 More information about the course and how you can register on the post below ⬇️

Physalia-courses@ONLINE@physaliacourses.bsky.social · last yr.

Registrations are now open for the #Phylogenomics course with this amazing team of instructors Paschalia, Tomas, @sabifo4.bsky.social and @zihengyang.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

The clock is ticking 🕔! Pre-registration will close today March 14th (17:00h GMT+0), do not miss your chance to join us at the SystAssn-SRUK/CERU Bayesian Phylogenetics Workshop! 💻🧬

Sandra Álvarez@sabifo4.bsky.social · last yr.

The deadline to apply for student travel bursaries to attend the SystAssn-SRUK/CERU Bayesian Phylogenetics Workshop 💻🧬 is approaching: March 3rd! Pre-registration will be open until March 14th. Do not miss the deadlines, submit your application before it is too late! sruk.org.uk/ceru-events/...

Thanks to all organisers that have made the Workshop of Computational Genomics possible and all the participants that have joined us both in person and online -- we have had such a great time in Hong Kong! 🌹 Hope to see you all again in future meetings 🤗 Next stop: 🚗 Shenzhen!

Ziheng Yang Lab@zihengyang.bsky.social · last yr.

Our Workshop on Genomics at Sun Yat-sen University Institute of Advanced Studies Hong Kong has come to an end! We are grateful to all organisers and very pleased to have meet such fantastic and hard-working participants! 下次见, 谢谢 🌹(1/2)